“I think Donald Trump promised Melania that he would not win. She didn’t have to worry about ever living in the White House. It’s probably why she doesn’t look real happy every day. Well, maybe one reason.”

However, he also offered a defense of Trump on matters of policy.

“If you can peel away the noise and the tweets and all that, which is virtually impossible to do, but if you peel all this away, from a Republican standpoint the things that he’s doing by and large are really good things,” Boehner said.

Politics is “just not fun” anymore, Boehner noted, which is why so many people are retiring. According to the Detroit News, he said the 2016 election was the result of not enough people voting in primaries. And that led to candidates from the fringes.